As a creative professional, we are at a great spot of making passive income, especially as designers! This week, I’m starting a series about getting a passive income going; income that will keep coming in without you doing anything after the initial push! For this first week, we are going to talk about templates!
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Time has come to enter one of the most difficult topics that I know about myself. Being both a freelancer in several fields and attending school, there is quite a lot to fit together into just 24 hours (including the well needed sleep). Some would say that I myself take on a lot (you know who you are), but in the end, if you just learn to plan it out in a good way, it can work out. Today, I’m going to share my experiences in the field.
There is an old saying that we’ve all heard many times before. It goes: “The Client Is Always Right”. It shapes us when we go shopping, and it shapes us when we begin to sell things as well. Naturally the client should be pleased! However, I’ve started to notice a decrease in this mentality in the design business to where the client is a “stupid person” who just makes it harder for us. I would like to compare and disagree with this mentality.
All the time as a creative professional, clients expect you to straight off know what they want and many continue to do so through the whole process. Between you and me, I know we cannot read minds and therefore we have a great tool that can help us gather as much information as possible before committing to a new project. Questions.
I know, the administrative parts of being a designer/coder or generally a freelancer (or small studio owner) can be daunting and a part that I always forget is to start the timer and track the entire process even in flat-fee projects. There are a lot of good reasons why we should spend a little more time to keep track of both projects and opportunities.
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